Rich cookies sprinkled with grave sugar.

1 cup sugar - 8 ounces.

1/2 cup butter, large - 4 ounces.

3 eggs.

1/2 cup milk.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

4 cups flour - 1 pound.

Work the softened butter and sugar together to a cream, the same as for pound cake, beat the eggs and mix them in, then the milk, and the flour with the powder mixed in it. Keep the dough as soft as it can be handled. After it has been pressed and worked smooth on the table let it alone a few minutes before rolling out, then the cakes will not draw out of shape when cut.

While they are baking mix an egg and some syrup together in a cup. add some flavoring extract, brush the hot cakes over with it and dredge gravel sugar on top.

Gravel sugar is loaf sugar crushed and the dust sifted away, then again sifted in a colander. The sugar that passes through the holes of the colander is gravel sugar.